Carl Jung publishes 'Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth'

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Portrait of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung, author of 'Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies' Francis Domiano, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung published Ein moderner Mythus, later translated as Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. Jung set aside whether saucers were physical craft and treated the wave of sightings as a psychological and cultural response to an anxious era.

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  1. OtherFlying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (trans. R. F. C. Hull) (opens in a new tab)Princeton University Press / 1979
  2. OtherFlying saucers: a modern myth of things seen in the skies (library catalogue record) (opens in a new tab)Oregon Friends of Jung, Fae Dougan Library

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